| Association of Children's
Museums (ACM) is an international not-for-profit professional
service organization representing and advocating for the
children's museum field. ACM's mission is to build the
capacity of children's museums to serve as town squares
for children and families where play inspires creativity
and lifelong learning. Currently, ACM serves more than
500 museums, businesses and individuals. |
Questions?
Contact
Lila Elliott
Program Manager, Membership
Phone: 202-898-1080
Fax: 202-898-1086
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Benefits of Membership
ACM Annual Membership Dues
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Individual Categories
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Open Children’s Museum
Categories
U.S. open children’s museum categories dues structure
is based on annual operating income.
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$330 Level 1: under $250K
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$660 Level 2: under $500K
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$880 Level 3: under $1 million
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$1,210 Level 4: under $3 million
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$1,430 Level 5: under $5 million
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$1,760 Level 6: more than $5 million
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Corporate Categories
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Special Museum Categories
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$330 Emerging Children’s Museum
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$600 International Children’s Museum
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$880 Affiliate Museum
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$2,200 Sponsor Children’s Museum
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Learning Institution Category
- $330 Academic / Research Institution
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MUSEUMS MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES
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Sponsor Museums (these museums receive
additional benefits
in recognition for their leadership
of the children's museum field)
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Open Children's Museums (Levels 1 -6)
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Emerging Children's Museums
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International Children's Museums
- Affiliated Museums
- This category includes art, history, science and other
museums dedicated to serving children and families.
GENERAL MUSEUM BENEFITS
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Unlimited logons/accounts for
museum staff, volunteers and Board members to the ACM
Members Only Web site
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Marketing opportunities, including
member link on ACM Web site, access to ACM programs with
grant makers and strategic partnerships
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Access to ACM's Member's Only
online resources such as ACM's Museum Membership Directory,
The Case for Children's Museums and Vision Marketing
Kit and the Grants and Awards Calendar
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Eligibility for Reciprocal Membership
Program (open museums only)
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Annual subscription to Hand
to Hand, plus reduced additional copy rate
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Annual subscription to E-Forum,
ACM's periodic electronic newsletter of member news and
marketing opportunities
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One free copy of the ACM Professional
Standards Document
- Free ACM statistical queries per
year
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One free job posting on the ACM
Museum Jobs site (additional postings are for a fee
at the member-rate)
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Voting privileges (one vote per
museum)
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Discount on exhibit listings on the ACM Exhibits Marketplace
site
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Discount on registration fee for
InterActivity
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Eligibility for a five percent
rebate off the total registration fee (minus events and
food charges),
when registering five or more staff members to the full
InterActivity conference
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Discount on ACM's publications
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Eligibility for Promising Practice
Awards (U.S. children's museums only)
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Eligibility for Universal Design
for Learning Awards (U.S. children's museums only)
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Eligibility for ACM Board and
Committees
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Networking with children's museums
SPONSOR
MUSEUM BENEFITS
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Recognition at InterActivity
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Recognition in E-Forum,
ACM's periodic electronic newsletter of member news and
marketing opportunities
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Recognition in the ACM Annual Report
- Additional subscriptions to:
- Hand to Hand, ACM's
quarterly journal of museum trends
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E-Forum
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One free set of ACM Member mailing
labels
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All General Museum Member Benefits
CORPORATE LEADER BENEFITS
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Recognition
as an official sponsor of ACM
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A listing,
link and logo on the ACM Products & Services List
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Three free
database queries per year, plus one free set of ACM member
mailing labels
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Plus ALL Core
Benefits
CORPORATE SUPPORTER BENEFITS
SELF-EMPLOYED CONSULTANT
This category of membership is open
to individual consultants only. Staff employed at a firms
must join at the
Corporate Supporter or Corporate Leader level.
CORPORATE CORE BENEFITS
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Unlimited staff logons/accounts to the ACM Members Only
Web site
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Subscription to Hand to Hand,
ACM's quarterly journal reporting on trends in the field
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Subscription to E-Forum,
a quarterly newsletter featuring museum news and marketing
opportunities
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One free job posting on the ACM
Museum Jobs site (additional postings are for a fee at
the member-rate)
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Discounts on conference registration
and exhibit booths at InterActivity, the world's largest
children's museum conference
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Free admission for one member
to ACM Reciprocal Museums (limited to one visit per museum
per year)
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Inclusion in ACM's online Products
& Services List
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Access to customized queries from
the ACM database of museum statistics
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Discounts on exhibit listings
on the ACM Exhibits Marketplace site
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Single logon/account to the ACM Members Only Web site
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Inclusion as an integral member
of ACM, the premiere organization representing and advocating
for the children's
museum field
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Networking with children's museums
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Discounts on publications and programs
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Subscription to Hand to Hand, a professional and
scholarly journal
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Subscription to E-Forum, a newsletter of museum
news and marketing opportunities
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Discounts on conference registration
and exhibit booths at InterActivity, the world's largest
children's museum
conference
| Academic / Research Institution
Benefits |
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Institutions eligible for this
category of membership include colleges, universities and
independently-run
research facilities.
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Listing on the Academic Programs/Resources
Page on ACM's Web site, highlighting University programs
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Opportunity to list research abstracts
and information on how to access full reports on ACM's
Research Exchange
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Unlimited staff logons/accounts to the
ACM Members Only Web site
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Access to ACM's Member's Only Web site
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Subscription to Hand to Hand,
a professional and scholarly journal
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Subscription to E-Forum, a newsletter
of museum news and marketing opportunities
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Discounts on conference registration
and exhibit booths at InterActivity, the world's largest
children's museum conference
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